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Finance Manager – now recruiting

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Indepen-dance is looking for a new candidate to join the senior management team as the Finance Manager. This is in addition to our recent job advert for an administrative and Human resources manager.

Location: The Pearce Institute, Govan

Reports to: Artistic Director

Salary: £23 -26k pro rata (16hrs a week)

Closing date: 10th May 2018

Interviews: 21st May 2018

Please download the application documents and send completed applications to Claire.Reda@indepen-dance.org.uk by the closing date.

 

We’re committed to being an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from minority groups. When you contact us please highlight if you are registered disabled as we can offer automatic interview should you meet the minimum job specifications. If you struggle to travel to the interview due to low income or unemployment, we can also offer reimbursement of costs.

 

Application documents

Finance Manager job description 2018

finance manager application form 2018

EqualitiesMonitoringFormIndepen-dance2018 finance-2

 

 

Precarious with Simon Whitehead: CPD workshop for Dance Artists and Teachers

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When: Tuesday 22nd May, 10am-5pm

Where: Pollock House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G43 1AT  Please note: If you require disabled access please let us know in advance as this entrance is located at the side of the building and we will ensure someone meets you and shows you to this entrance. The building also has disabled toilets close to the space we are using and cafe facilities. 

Cost: £50/40 (+online booking fee and VAT £3.59/£3.11)

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarious-with-simon-whitehead-a-workshop-for-dance-artists-and-teachers-tickets-45060583418 or call Indepen-dance on 0141 552 3555

 

The Workshop

Simon will share practices that propose ways to collaborate tenderly with our environment, the materials around us and each other. There will be opportunities to work solo and collectively, to leave the studio to work outdoors and to return to develop dance scores with found materials; co-

creating precarious environments in which to move.

Over the last 16 years Simon has located much of his practice in the valley close to his rural home. Walking and encountering places, objects and events, he responds physically, making performances on foot, often fleeting, ephemeral and playful.

He recently developed ‘studies’, a gallery performance with a table, exploring remembrance and the often out of balance, transient relationships between body, object and sound.

 

Simon Whitehead

Simon is a Movement Artist. Based in Rural Wales for the last 24 years, his works respond to circumstance through movement and image and may manifest as solo actions or social choreographies, often working with the public, other artists, animals and places.

www.simonwhitehead.net

www.untitledstates.net

www.may-nard.org

 

Inclusive Dance Workshop with Aya Kobayashi: Creative Anatomy and Imagination. 

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Inclusive Dance Workshop with Aya Kobayashi: Creative Anatomy and Imagination. 

 

 

When: Tuesday 27th March, 10am-5pm

Where: Partick Burgh Hall, 9 Burgh Hall Street, Glasgow, G11 5LW

 

Cost: £50/40 (+online booking fee and VAT £3.59/£3.11)

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-with-aya-kobayashi-creative-anatomy-and-imagination-tickets-43701596652 or call Indepen-dance on 0141 5594930

 

The workshop will share various images, objects and diagrams to stimulate the imagination of our moving bodies.

Working with the metaphors and descriptions of the exercises that is inclusive to the group, we stand equally and work together to understand, share, and yet each of us to continue to work on our own inquiries and studies. We invite our whole body and mind to work co-opratively to awaken and cultivate the physical abilities. Using both improvisation and set materials, we knead our dance. It supports discovering the sensations and motions as well as helping to develop the physical memory. We will dedicate to move ‘healthily’.

The workshop aims to have a sense of developmental journey towards performative state. Through tasks we will explore compositions with other bodies in the space.

 

 Aya Kobayashi

Aya is an independent dance artist based in UK, recently moved to Glasgow. She has performed for companies such as Flexer & Sandiland, Rosemary Lee, Charlie Morrissey, Gecko Theatre, Saffy Setohy and Lila Dance. Aya has presented her work at various venue in the UK and abroad including The Place, Royal Festival Hall, Birmingham Hippodrome, The Lowry, Northern Ballet, Spain, Egypt and Mexico and Japan. She has been an associate artist for Anjali Dance Company for last 9 years where she gained range of teaching experiences and developed choreographic work with people with leaning disabilities. She enjoys working with inclusive and intergenerational groups and dedicates to develop the artistry within communities. She works with Tate and present audience participatory performances and lead education programs. Aya teaches technique and improvisation and works as a rehearsal director. Teaching credits includes Independent Dance, Greenwich Dance, Stopgap Dance Company, Dance Limerick, Proda Norway, Rambert School.

 

Find out about our past training opportunties here.

Classes cancelled 1st March

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ALL classes are cancelled and the office is closed again today. We don’t want anyone to endanger themselves by travelling during the red weather warning and we don’t know if today’s venues will actually open. So, to confirm classes which are cancelled today are as follows:

DYSO, Tramway AM am PM, MUSAC, Touch Trust, Campsie View, REACH, Grangemouth, Cumbernauld.

Hope you stay safe and warm!

Keep checking our website and social media for updates.

Thank you.

Professional Contemporary Class with Adam Sloan

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Professional Contemporary Class with Adam Sloan

Join us next week for another Wednesday morning professional class
When: Wednesday 7th March 9.15-10.30am
Where: Scottish Ballet’s Education Studio within Tramway, 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE
Cost: £6 (cash on the day)

Class will be lead by Indy4 dancer Adam Sloan and supported by George Alexander Adams​. The class will focus on on dynamics, alignment, sequencing and improvisation. The session will include an appropriate warm up in order for the dancers to be adequately prepared for devising new vocabulary for a new work. This class is developed for professional dancers.

 

Adam Sloan – Dance Artist

Adam was first employed by Indepen-dance as a dance apprentice in 2011 and in 2013 was delighted to become part of Indepen-dance 4, their inclusive performance ensemble. Adam loves to perform and since embarking on his dance career has appeared on stages across Scotland as well as at venues in Ghent, Paris, Mainz and in various towns throughout Northern and Southern Ireland. He has performed works by a range of choreographers including Laura Jones, Christine Devanney, Ramesh Meyyappan, Anna Newall and George Adams and in 2015  was excited to perform with Scottish Ballet in the premier of  Exalt by Marc Brew.

 

In 2016 Adam was awarded a lifetime Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, one of only five given in Britain to people with learning disabilities. The award was granted to help him develop as a choreographer. Since then he has been working with George Adams as his mentor to produce a new  piece of contemporary dance featuring three dancers from Indepen-dance. This new piece, now nearing completion, will be performed at Go Dance in Glasgow, in Spring  2018 and at the World Downs Syndrome Congress in Glasgow in summer 2018.

Announcement: All Classes Cancelled on 28th Feb and Office closed from 3pm

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Due to adverse weather conditions all our classes on the 28th February are cancelled and our office at the Briggait will close at 3pm. Please check our website and social media for further updates. Enjoy the snow day everyone – stay safe and cosy!

Four Go Wild in Wellies: Spring Tour April 2018

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FOUR GO WILD IN WELLIES: SPRING TOUR APRIL 2018

Photo by Brian Hartley

Four Go Wild in Wellies is a playful look at how friendships are built broken and mended – a whimsical adventure featuring tents that have a life of their own, bobble hats, and of course, lots of fun in wellies!

A brand new show for audiences aged 3-5 years (and their families) from Indepen-dance 4, Scotland’s inclusive professional dance company. Created with the dancers, by director Anna Newell, composer David Goodall, choreographer Stevie Prickett with design by Brian Hartley.

Click links below for further information on venues and tickets…

 

CCA, Glasgow 3 April 11am

Platform, Glasgow  4 April 11am

Boat of Garten Community Hall 7 April 10am

The Barn, Banchory  8 April 1pm

Dundee Rep Theatre 13 April 11am and 2pm

Eden Court, Inverness  15 April 3pm and 16 April 11am

Macphail Centre, Ullapool17 April 11.15am

Gairloch Community Hall  18 April 10am

Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock20 April 10.30am

Birnum Arts22 April 2pm

 

Check out our trailer for a taster of the fun to come…

 


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Professional Contemporary Class

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Professional Contemporary Class with Aya Kobayashi

Join us  for another Wednesday morning professional class

 

When: Wednesdays  9.15-10.30am
Where: Scottish Ballet’s Education Studio within Tramway, 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE
Cost: £6 (cash on the day)

 

Aya’s class offers questions and imageries that navigate you to a dynamic journey of play. Working together with both improvisation and set material the class will explore the sense of gravity and fullness, deepen the clarity of patterns and explore the choreographic senses.

 

Adam Sloan – Dance Artist

Adam was first employed by Indepen-dance as a dance apprentice in 2011 and in 2013 was delighted to become part of Indepen-dance 4, their inclusive performance ensemble. Adam loves to perform and since embarking on his dance career has appeared on stages across Scotland as well as at venues in Ghent, Paris, Mainz and in various towns throughout Northern and Southern Ireland. He has performed works by a range of choreographers including Laura Jones, Christine Devanney, Ramesh Meyyappan, Anna Newall and George Adams and in 2015  was excited to perform with Scottish Ballet in the premier of  Exalt by Marc Brew.

 

In 2016 Adam was awarded a lifetime Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, one of only five given in Britain to people with learning disabilities. The award was granted to help him develop as a choreographer. Since then he has been working with George Adams as his mentor to produce a new  piece of contemporary dance featuring three dancers from Indepen-dance. This new piece, now nearing completion, will be performed at Go Dance in Glasgow, in Spring  2018 and at the World Downs Syndrome Congress in Glasgow in summer 2018.

Class will be lead by Indy4 dancer Adam Sloan and supported by George Alexander Adams​. The class will focus on on dynamics, alignment, sequencing and improvisation. The session will include an appropriate warm up in order for the dancers to be adequately prepared for devising new vocabulary for a new work. This class is developed for professional dancers.

 

 

 

Emma Smith

Emma is currently a dance artist with inclusive dance company, Indepen-dance, with
whom she has worked across the UK, Ireland, Italy, and Germany. She has
performed in works by Mark Brew (Axis Dance Company), Laura Jones (StopGap
Dance Company), George Adams (La Petit Mort Theatre), and Anna Newell (Replay
Theatre Company). She also works as a freelance dance artist, teacher, and choreographer, specialising in creative learning, contemporary dance, and inclusive practice. She works for many national dance organisations, including Dance Base,
Scottish Ballet, Dance House, and the MacRobert Arts Centre. In 2015 she was one
of three Scottish artists to be awarded a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship, which she undertook with YDance. Emma is currently studying for a Masters of Education at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

 

Emma’s class uses imagery and improvisation to lead into technical set phrases which
explore a strong, articulate, physicality.

 

 

 

George Adams

George trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. He has worked extensively as a performer, choreographer and teacher for leading national companies including Yael Flexer and Nick Sandland- Dance and Digital Works, Nigel Charnock + Company, Motionhouse, Ludus Dance, National Dance Company of Wales and as co-director of La Petite Mort Theatre. George has worked as associate director for Indepen-dance 4 since 2016 where he has choreographed on the company, rehearsal directed, and most recently has been a choreographic mentor to dancer Adam Sloan.

George’s own work has been programmed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NT Ghent in Belgium, Cumbria Chamber of Commerce, Resolutions, Turn Festival and Light Up Lancaster.

George also has experience in facilitating Pilates and dance technique within education and has a Masters in Movement Psychotherapy.

 

George’s class draws on his diverse experience in movement and uses dynamic sequences to develop individual technique and the dancer’s own style. Influenced further by yoga practice and set to a score of upbeat music.

 

 

 Aya Kobayashi

Aya is an independent dance artist based in UK, recently moved to Glasgow. She has performed for companies such as Flexer & Sandiland, Rosemary Lee, Charlie Morrissey, Gecko Theatre, Saffy Setohy and Lila Dance. Aya has presented her work at various venue in the UK and abroad including The Place, Royal Festival Hall, Birmingham Hippodrome, The Lowry, Northern Ballet, Spain, Egypt and Mexico and Japan. She has been an associate artist for Anjali Dance Company for last 9 years where she gained range of teaching experiences and developed choreographic work with people with leaning disabilities. She enjoys working with inclusive and intergenerational groups and dedicates to develop the artistry within communities. She works with Tate and present audience participatory performances and lead education programs. Aya teaches technique and improvisation and works as a rehearsal director. Teaching credits includes Independent Dance, Greenwich Dance, Stopgap Dance Company, Dance Limerick, Proda Norway, Rambert School.

Storytelling Week and Members’ Stories project

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For Storytelling week, we are running a program of classes themed around disability heritage as part of our Members’ Stories Project. Heritage themed dance classes will explore disability history through creative movement and will interpret and create stories in dance based on three themes: Disability and protest, disability and performance and the end of asylums.

We want people to learn about disability heritage which often goes unshared because usually it is the powerful people in society who get to tell their story.

And also, when we celebrated our 20th anniversary a couple of years ago now, we realised we needed to tell stories about our members, some of who have been with us from the very beginning in 1996 – We’re doing this with a whole heritage project about dance and disability and these classes are part of that where we can share and explore some of the things we’ve found out.

Also included in the project:

-a research project about Indepen-dance and the wider context of dance and disability
-Volunteer group and visits to archives.
-Creating a film with interviews that tell the stories of our members.
-The creation of our very own archive
-A small publication about the heritage of dance and disability
-A sharing event on the 30th March at The CCA for the project

If you want to learn more, or volunteer, share your story, photos or attend our sharing event, email admin@indepen-dance.org.uk